[Q] Battery Issues (3500mah battery)

[SGT_Watkins]

So recently bought a 3500mah battery for my phone, and for about a month it was AWESOME. Now I'm having some issues with it.

I can have it on the charger all night but it never goes over 55-65%
Sometimes I can plug it in and it'll say charging but actually does nothing.

I've tried reflashing the teamhacksung's ICS hoping it would fix it, and it fixed the issue where it would connect to the computer but not charge, but the other issues are still there. I've cleared the battery stats, dalvik, did a full restore and just now I've put the original battery in to see how it's going to work with that. Any suggestions/known issues?

 

[SGT_Watkins]

Just an update, even after just a few minutes on the old battery it's already went from 51% to 62% charged. I'm beginning to think that maybe it's the 220v power here in Germany, or that I'm just using the stock charger and didn't get a new one with the new battery?

 

[SGT_Watkins]

Ugh, second update, on the charger it's gone DOWN to 59%, going to try to reboot and clear the battery stats again.

 

[bravomail]

Charging circuit might have blown capacitor or something. Time to get HTC One X (in lack of GS3).

 

[SGT_Watkins]

Unfortunately I'm stationed in Germany, and only for another year or so, so it's pointless for me to get a contract here (plus they're expensive) so I'll wait it out. I have a camera battery charger where you just line up the positive and the negative, and I was planning to just use that when I get home, swap out the batteries when I can.

Is there any 100% certain way to know if the capacitor is blown or if it's the rotation of the Earth and the moons gravitational pull with Jupiter or any other problems that could be causing it?

 

[bravomail]

If you can live with 50% charge, and otherwise things work - bigger battery should make it tolerable.
Get a cheap used phone on the market as a backup. In Europe there's big variety of them.

 

[lufc]

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